How To Submit Your Site To Different Search Engines?
Akram Messail
How can I get my site to be found by Google and get indexed? It sounds like a pretty simple question, but, it is the most important question you can ask when you have a new website.
The answer is as simple as the question, ‘Submit your website to search engines’. but that’s where things get a little bit complicated.
Don’t worry!
This guide will take you through the essential and relatively easy steps you can take to get submit your website and get it indexed by search engines.
What is Search Engine Submission And What are The Advantages?
A search engine submission is a process of listing your website on search engines. This is a very important process for any website, as it will help it get indexed in Google, Bing, and other search engines, and rank higher in the search engine results pages (SERPs) in order to get more traffic.
The following are some of the reasons why you should care about search engine submissions:
– You aim for more traffic and high rankings on Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.
– The need to be found by people who are looking for you on a search engine.
– You have been trying to increase your visibility and brand awareness.
– Your goal is to grow your business.
How To Submit Your Site To Google Search Console Step By Step?
In order to submit your site to Google, you need a Google Search Console account and an active website.
Google Search Console is a free service by Google that helps webmasters and site owners monitor their website’s performance in Google Search results, using this tool, you can tell Google about the changes you’ve made to your website, such as adding new content or changing your site’s address.
Also, it will help you with verifying ownership of your website, checking for malware or spam on it, and diagnosing and fixing errors that might have been preventing your site from showing up in search results.
Time needed: 15 minutes
In the first part, you will learn how to set up a Google Search Console account in order to track and monitor our search performance.
Type “Google Search Console” in the search engine.
Click on Google Search Console then on “Start Now”.
Sign in with your Google account (if you don’t have a google account you can create one).
There are two ways to add your property: using a Domain (it can be hard for most people) or using a URL prefix (the one we are using here).
Enter the URL of your website, then click “Continue”.
Download the HTML File that appears first.
Go back to your cPanel dashboard and click on “File Manager”.
Click on “public_html” then click on “Upload”.
Select the HTML File you have downloaded.
Go back to your Google Search Console account and click on “Verify”.
Congratulations, you have verified the ownership of your website.
In the second part, we need to create a site map of our website, In this case, we will use the Yoast SEO plugin. Now go to the Dashboard of your website, and select Yoast SEO => General.
Click on Features then scroll down.
Select XML Sitemaps, then, click on “See the XML sitemap”.
Copy the site maps you find in the table, for instance: “post-sitemap.xml”.
In the sidebar, select “Sitemaps”.
Note: A domain property will not show the domain for the field. so you should use the full sitemap URL.
How To Submit An Individual Page To Google?
Sometimes, after we publish some posts, It is important to submit these new individual pages to Google directly through Google Search Console so that people can find them.
For this purpose, there are different ways to do this, but here we will focus on one way – submitting a page to Google using the URL submission tool.
1- Copy the URL of the page you want to submit.
2- Go to Google Search Console.
3- Paste the full URL into the Search Console’s URL Inspection tool.
If you find the “URL is not on Google” warning, that means that the page isn’t indexed. Just click on “Request indexing” to ask Google to crawl and index the page.
If you see the “URL is on Google” confirmation, that means that the page is indexed.
How to submit your website to Bing?
There are mainly two ways to submit your website to Bing:
Adding your site manually
1- Sign in to Bing Webmaster Tool.
2- Enter the URL of your website.
3- Select HTML Meta Tag, and click on “Copy”.
4- Go back to your WordPress dashboard and click on “Plugins” => “Add New”.
5- Write ‘insert headers and footers’ then install the plugin made by WPBeginner.
6- Go to “Settings” => “Insert Headers and Footers”.
7- Paste the Meta Tag in the field ‘Scripts in Header’.
8- Scroll down and click on “Save”.
9- Go back to your Bing Webmaster Tool account and click on “Verify”.
10- Congratulations, you have verified the ownership of your website.
11- Now, select ‘Sitemaps’ on the left menu, paste in your sitemap URL, then click on “Submit sitemap”.
Importing your site from Google Search Console
If you have already submitted your site to Google, then you can follow this method:
1- Sing in to Bing Webmaster Tool using the Google account.
2- Click on “Import” => “Continue”.
3- Choose your account then click on “Allow”.
4- Select your website.
5- Congratulations, you have verified the ownership of your website.
Note 1: There is no need to submit a sitemap following this method.
Note 2: By submitting to Bing, you will automatically submit your site to Yahoo. So there’s nothing to do about it.
How to submit your website to DuckDuckGo?
DuckDuckGo is a search engine that does not track its users. Actually, it is the only search engine that does not store any of your personal information.
To submit your website to DuckDuckGo, you don’t need to do anything.
Weird right!
No, don’t worry, DuckDuckGo automatically discovers and indexes websites from over 400 sources and Bing’s search results, so you don’t need to manually submit your website to them.
Just submit your website to Bing (as we showed you before), and you did all you needed to get indexed on DuckDuckGo.
How to submit your website to Yandex?
Yandex is one of the most popular search engines in Russia. It is the leading search engine in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus.
Yandex also operates a number of online communities with over 33 million active users including Yandex Disk and Yandex Blogs.
You can follow these steps to submit your website to Yandex:
1- Sign in to Yandex.Webmaster.
2- Add your website URL.
3- Copy the Meta Tag.
4- Install the ‘Insert Headers and Footers’ plugin.
5- Go to “Settings” => “Insert Headers and Footers”.
6- Paste the Meta Tag in the field ‘Scripts in Header’.
7- Scroll down and click on “Save”.
8- Go back to your Bing Webmaster Tool account and click on “Verify”.
How to submit your website to Baidu?
If you are targeting people in China, then submitting your website to Baidu is essential (Baidu has 66%+ of the market share).
You can follow this excellent guide to Baidu submission.
How to know if your website is indexed?
There are a few different ways to know if your website is indexed. The first thing you can do is to search for your website on Google by typing “site:www.example.com”.
If you get a listing of the pages on your site, then it’s indexed. If you don’t get any results, then it’s not indexed either. However, this way can be misleading sometimes.
The best way to know if your website is on Google is to go to your Google Search Console and check the Coverage report, then select the ‘Valid’ tab. The lists under this tab contain the indexed URLs. If you want to check individual URLs you can use their URL Inspection Tool.
When it comes to Bing, you can use their Site Explorer and filter by indexed URLs. You will find all the pages on your site that are indexed. To check individual pages, use their URL Inspection tool.
How to fix indexing issues for Google?
First, we need to be aware that the technicalities of indexing can be very complicated. Google’s algorithm uses a number of factors to determine which pages it should include in its database and which it should not.
Secondly, we need to know that there are a number of ways to fix indexing issues for google such as fixing broken links, refreshing old content, or adding more relevant keywords.
You should also focus on building backlinks and getting more traffic from other sources like social media or email marketing campaigns.
To know if you are facing any problem with indexation, paste the URL into Google’s URL Inspection tool and check the coverage error.
You will find here the best way to deal with any issue.
Are There Any Issues with the Google Crawl?
Google Crawlers are the software that Google uses to crawl and index webpages. it is also called Googlebot.
Crawling can be done manually or automatically, either via a bot or using a search engine crawler. If a Search engine has crawled a web page, it will be stored in the engine’s index (in other words indexed).
Crawler error is an error message Crawlers send when they cannot find a website or any other type of resource (Ex: Crawler error: no website found).
Crawler error is a type of HTTP status code that can be returned by web browsers or other proxy servers when they cannot find a website or any other type of resource they are looking for on the Internet.
These error messages may be caused by domain name changes (DNS), network connectivity issues, or cache expiration.
For instance, there are a number of issues that can cause Google crawlers to return an error 500 type not found status code. The most common is when there are broken links on a webpage that the crawler is unable to find.
How Long Does it Take for a New Website to Show up on Google?
It takes a few months for a new website to rank on Google. This is because Google wants to make sure that the site has enough content and enough backlinks before it shows up on its search engine results pages.
Once you have your website established, you need to build up a backlink profile. This means that other websites will link to your website when they publish new content.
It will take time for these links to start showing up organically in the search engines, but it’s still worth doing as there is no guarantee they will all appear any time soon.
Conclusion and Wrap Up
Although submitting your website can be very helpful and can speed up your indexation, still that is not enough.
The goal is not to be on Google, the goal is to be on the first page of Google search (and why not top 3).
Because, whether we like it or not, nobody clicks beyond the first page in Google Search. And the top 3 results get 75.1% of all the clicks.
Huge right!
Still, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step and your first step is to expose your website to search engines.
If you are starting out and you aim for the top 3 results, you can check our services here.
Or, you can ask for a complete FREE Analysis of your website here.
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Posted Oct 2, 2024
How can I get my site to be found by Google? the answer is simple "submit your website to search engines", and this is how to do it
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